Improvement in portable bath-closets



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. M. J. DEXTER.

Portable Bath-Closet.

No. 222,026. Patented Nov. 25, 18 79.

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'No. 222,026. Pa tented Noy. 25, 1879.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARY J. DEXTER, 0E MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMEHNT IN POIRTABLE BATH-CLOSETS.

- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,026, dated November '25, 1879; application filed October 3, 1879.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARYJ. DEXTER, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Portable Bath -Closets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to improvements in portable bath rooms or closets; and itconsists in the device hereinafter to be described.

Figure l of the drawings is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 a vertical central section, of my invention. v

A is the room or closet, which is provided with small side doors, 0 c, and large doors B B. On its inside the room or closet is provided with a sliding foot-rest, F, and slanting seat D, which seat has an opening in its center, which may be covered with wire-gauze E, or any material which will allow the water to pass through into the funnel P, emptying into a suitable waste-waterreceptacle below; and in front of this funnel is a swinging flap, O, for concealing it. Just above the seat D an elbow-lever, H, is pivoted to the side of the room or closet by a bolt, 8, passing through a slot therein and to the rear arm of this lever a block, I, is fixed, for a purpose hereinafter to be stated.

In the top of the room or closet I arrange two troughs, M M, and from them depend, respectively, two tubes, L L, which dip into a trough, K, arranged just back of the seat D.

Operation: This room or closet isportable, and may be readily removed from one room to another, and each of the doors B B is twothirds as wide as the closet, so that when closed they will overlap; or they may be simply bowed, so that they will close the front of the room or clpset' and rest against the sides of the triangular foot-rest F; or one of the doors-that on the side toward the occupants of the roommay be opened out on a line with the side of the closet, and thus screen the occupant of the closet from observation.

Supposealadyisbathing. Shetalresher seat upon the gauze E, and, a sponge or brush having been tied or otherwise attached to the block I, by working the lever H she-can alternately dip the sponge or brush in the water in trough K and apply it to the person, or an attendant, reachin g through either of the small doors, can assist her ablutions.

The troughs M M may be filled, one with hot and the other with cold water, either by hand or through pipes leading from the city water-supply.

Brackets may be put up in my portable bath room or closet at suitable points for various toilet articles.

I claim 1. In a portable bath room or closet, the seat D, having a trough in its rear, in combination with the pivoted lever for' holding a sponge or brush, as set forth.

2. In a portable bath room or closet, the combination of the troughs M M, the trough at the rear of the seat, and the lever H.

3. The foot-rest F, in combination with the doors B B and seat D, as set forth.

4. A portable bath room or closet having troughs M, M, and K, seat D, doors B B and o c, and sliding foot-rest F, as set forth;

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 4th day of September, 1879.

MARY J. DEXTER.

Witnesses:

E. H. BoTTUM, ADDIE M. DEXTER. 

